Monster Squad playing at The Colonial October 8, 2010

Fri, Oct 8 @ 9:45PM
MONSTER SQUAD
"Squad boasts a seemingly fool- proof premise (The Little Rascals meet Universal's mon- sters), but it nevertheless took years to develop a cult, thanks largely to marketing that made it look like a soulless Ghostbusters knock-off. A clever script by Shane Black and director Fred Dekker pits a resurgent Count Dracula (Duncan Regehr) and his clique of monster sidekicks against a pint-sized monster club
devoted to exploring pressing matters like whether the Wolfman can drive a car. Squad joins The Lost Boys, Fright Night, Gremlins, and Poltergeist in a winning '80s subgenre dedicated to ghoulies invading the suburbs. Like its more commercially successful peers, Squad oozes geek-love for its subject matter; it's clear the filmmakers are just as enamored of things that go bump in the night as their fearless kiddie vampire-slayers. Squad's gleeful monster mash anticipates bloated CGI orgies like Van Helsing, which likely cost a hun- dred times as much, yet boasts a hundredth of Squad's scrap- py, ramshackle charm. At a lean 82 min, it also boasts a virtue increasingly lost to the past: brevity." (Nathan Rabin, The Onion A.V. Club) Fred Dekker, US, 1987, PG-13, 82 min.

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